I asked him about a year or two why and he said because your grandfather was. But once my parents divorced i rarely saw him. I did have a stepdad who ended up taking lots of photographs. Not that much of the family some of the family but he was part of the African National congress. He was from south africa, political exile, who came to this country to spread the message of the antiapartheid message and he used the camera as his weapon of choice. So he was the one who basically raised me from the time i was nine years old. Lets watch the first minute or so so people can get a sense of what this is about. Harris you see yourself in the past and the future . Do you see yourself through your own eyes . When you look at a black person, who do i see . Who do you see . Do i see us now . Do i see us through a lens darkly . Brian lamb why the name . Thomas allen harris through a lens darkly comes from the bible, corinthians, it is the 13th chapter, and it is, how do we see god . We see god rig
Cspan Thomas Allen Harris through a lens darkly is what . Guest through a lens darkly is a documentary that looks at the way africanamerican photographers and communities have use the camera as a tool for social change from the beginning of photography in the 1840s through the present and it is also a personal memoir a personal memoir because i come from a family of photographers. So i am in the film as well has my family members. Cspan you are the narrator . Guest yes, i am. Cspan before we get to the opening part of the documentary what is the story of you and your father . Guest my father and mother divorced when i was maybe six or seven. My father never took any photographs of my family of me my brother. Both my brother and i are image makers. My grandfather, grandfather, my mothers father, to thousands of photographs of the family. And so, you knowbout the ways in which this idea of framing and taking a picture of a family what it says about both the person in front of the camera,
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Also in texas, Health Officials now say ten people who came in contact with mr. Duncan are at high risk for developing ebola. That is down from possibly 100. And the apartment where he stayed with his girlfriend has been decontaminated. She, her son and two nephews have been moved to a new home. A county judge who personally drove her and the family to their new place tried to reassure the public at a press conference last night. Im a married man with a little girl who will have her ninth birthday next week. Im wearing the same shirt i was when i was in the car with that family. If there are any risks, i would not expose myself or my family to that risk. But there is zero risk. These people are asymptomatic. Zero risk of that. Health officials from the federal government also say the National Response to ebola is under control. Nbcs mark potter is in dallas for us. Mark, with a good day to you, what do we expect to hear from this News Conference . Reporter well, were hopeful that we ca
Good morning, everyone. New at the hospital, officials now say nurses and doctors there knew he had just come from liberia, and originally they said nobody knew that fact because of a computer glitch. After his first visit the patient was released. Two other significant moves in the case. Health officials clean the apartment where he stayed with his girlfriend and three others, and officials have said ten people in texas are now considered most at risk of contracting the virus. In washington, Top White House officials from the Health Department suppressed the National Response to ebola is under control. There were things that did not go the way they should have in dallas, but there are a loft things that went right and are going right. Every Ebola Outbreak over the past 40 years has been stopped. We know how to do this. And we will do it again. Is the latest attempt by the white house to tell americans that an outbreak on u. S. Soil is extremely unlikely, and Charles Hadlock is in dall